Fossil named after Nevada brewer who named his beer after it

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The beer was named after the fossil.

The fossil found in Nevada is named for the maker of the beer.

The first giant creature to colonize the earth, the Ichthyosaur, dominated the oceans in the Triassic period. The IchthyosaurIPA was created by Great Basin Brewing Company in 1993 in honor of the extinct creature.

Tom and Bonda Young of the Great Basin Brewing Company named one of the earliest species of dinosaurs Cymbospondylus youngorum. The Natural History Museum in Los Angeles hosted a ceremony in December where the name was announced.

The Natural History Museum in Los Angeles has a fossil that was found in northern Nevada and is currently on display.

Great Basin Brewing Company was founded in 1993 by the Youngs. Tom used to be a geologist. His interest in fossils led him to name one of his beers after him.

The ancient leviathan has regional ties. When the continents were still together, Nevada was under an ocean and the creature lived there. The site of the largest known concentration of ichthyosaur fossils in the world is located near Gabbs, Nevada, and is called Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park. The state fossil in 1977 was the Shonisaurus popularis.

A German team searching in Nevada for more fossils learned of the beer and went to Great Basin Brewing and the Youngs. The Youngs helped with the process of excavating and removing the skull of the 55 foot-long Ichthyosaur from Nevada, and then they brought it to Los Angeles in a beer truck.

The fossil was named after the Youngs by the museum in December.

The replicas of the specimen will be on display at the locations.

The lead in digging out the fossil was Dr. Martin Sander, a research associate at the Dinosaur Institute at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

In 2020 he told the RGJ that he spotted the remains of a reptile at an outcropping in the Augusta Mountains outside of Winnemucca in 2011.

The specimen was excavated from a rock unit in the Augusta Mountains of Nevada.

It took some digging to find it.

He said there were a few bones exposed on the side of the canyon. The front end of the animal might be hidden in the rocks.

His crew found the skull, forelimbs and chest region.

The team packed up the fossils the next day because of the cold and snow. They excavated the rest after returning in the year 2014).

The earliest case of an Ichthyosaur reaching giant proportions was found in the Middle Triassic.

It was as big as a large sperm whale at 17 meters and is the largest animal yet discovered from that time period, on land or in the sea.

It was an expensive proposition to get the fossil out. The crew lived in the desert for several weeks and had to hire a helicopter to move it.

There was evidence that a prehistoric swimming reptile was pregnant when it died.

The second-oldest pregnant specimen ever found was a species that had never before been identified. It was one of two major findings at the location.

The NHM spokesman said that the large snout and conical teeth of the C. youngorum suggest that it hunted smaller and juvenile marine reptiles as well.

The display of the Ichthyosaur was a huge hit with Tom Young.

Young said that it makes his heart sing when he sees people who are one of the top scientists in the world. Nevada is a unique place. The first giant is this one. This is pretty cool.

Young said that he had a different idea for the name.

He said he was voting for Beerosaurus.

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